Cuba Gooding Jr.

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1968-01-02 (57 years old)

Place of Birth

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Biography

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination. He was born in Bronx, New York to Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has two brothers, musician Tommy Gooding and fellow actor Omar Gooding, and sister, April Gooding. His family moved to Los Angeles after Gooding Sr.'s music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 but abandoned his family two years later. Gooding Jr. was raised by his mother and attended four different high schoo...

Acting

1993

Judgment Night

as Mike Peterson

1992

A Few Good Men

as Cpl. Carl Hammaker

1991

Boyz n the Hood

as Tré Styles

2001

Pearl Harbor

as Doris Miller

1999

2006

Dirty

as Salim Adel

1997

As Good as It Gets

as Frank Sachs

2023

The Weapon

as Blue

2007

American Gangster

as Nicky Barnes

2003

1994

Lightning Jack

as Ben Doyle

2009

Hardwired

as Luke Gibson

1995

Outbreak

as Major Salt

1995

The Tuskegee Airmen

as Billy Roberts

2009

2004

A Dairy Tale

as Buck (voice)

2000

Men of Honor

as Senior Chief Carl Brashear

2002

Snow Dogs

as Ted Brooks

1999

Instinct

as Dr. Theo Caulder

1998

What Dreams May Come

as Albert Lewis

2009

2006

End Game

as Alex Thomas

2007

Norbit

as Deion Hughes

2002

Boat Trip

as Jerry Robinson

2007

1996

Jerry Maguire

as Rod Tidwell

2001

Zoolander

as Cuba Gooding Jr.

2001

Rat Race

as Owen Templeton

2005

Shadowboxer

as Mikey

2008

Harold

as Cromer

1995

Losing Isaiah

as Eddie Hughes

2004

Home on the Range

as Buck (voice)

2003

Radio

as Radio

2007

Daddy Day Camp

as Charlie Hinton

1997

Trading Favors

as Liquor Store Clerk

1992

Judgement

as Officer Alvarez

2008

Linewatch

as Michael Dixon

2025

Dog Patrol

as Sheriff Jacobs

2009

The Way of War

as David Wolfe

1992

Gladiator

as Abraham Lincoln Haines

1989

Sing

as Stanley

2008

Hero Wanted

as Liam Case

2009

1993

Daybreak

as Torch

1999

A Murder of Crows

as Lawson Russell

2011

Ticking Clock

as Lewis Hicks

2012

Red Tails

as Major Emanuelle Stance

2011

Sacrifice

as John Hebron

2011

The Hit List

as Jonas Arbor

2012

2013

Machete Kills

as El Camaleon

2012

One in the Chamber

as Ray Carver

2013

The Butler

as Carter Wilson

2013

Summoned

as Detective Callendar

2013

Life of a King

as Eugene Brown

2013

Absolute Deception

as John Nelson

2013

Don Jon

as Hollywood Actor #2

2024

The Firing Squad

as Samuel Wilson

2014

Freedom

as Samuel

2001

2014

Selma

as Fred Gray

2024

TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy

as Self (archive footage)

2010

2020

2000

Welcome to Hollywood

as Cuba Gooding Jr.

1988

Coming to America

as Boy Getting Haircut

2018

Bayou Caviar

as Rodney Jones

1994

Blown Away

as Bomb Squad Class Member

2002

Making Rat Race

as Himself

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Giving Thanks

as Calvin

Production

1999

2018

Bayou Caviar

as Director

2018

Bayou Caviar

as Writer

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